UNICEF Remote Roster of Consultants Opportunity in United Kingdom for 2025. Apply Now!

Roster of Consultants Details
- Position(s): Roster of Consultants for Facilitation Expertise, Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), UNICEF Hosted Fund, Remote,
- Organization: UNICEF
- Job no: 577641
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: London
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: United Kingdom
- Categories: Education
- Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Background on the Vacancy
UNICEF Remote Roster of Consultants Opportunity in United Kingdom for 2025. There are few greater challenges faced by the global community than the twin crises of learning poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) came together with our founding CEO (Her Excellency Dr.) Amel Karboul to create EOF. We aim to improve the education and employment outcomes of 10 million children and youth, by supporting governments to utilize a range of innovative finance instruments at scale, including outcomes funds and other results-based financing (RBF) instruments.
EOF is backed by a range of world leaders who support us to shape our approach and achieve our ambitious aims, as well as leaders in education and impact investing.
EOF supports improvements in the quality of education and skills programmes, with a special focus on girls and underserved populations, including those in the hardest to reach rural areas. It measures (and pays for) what matters – both core skills like literacy and numeracy, but also critical 21st Century skills such as socio-emotional skills, ICT skills, and other broader fundamentals of a quality education. It helps close the persistent gap between the skills needed by employers and those attained by today’s youth.
For all the above, EOF pays primarily on the basis of the results achieved, ensuring that taxpayer-funded domestic resources, aid, and philanthropic funds are only used to pay for what works. This is a game-changing way to finance results in education, focusing attention and realigning systems on the most challenging but most important measure of a programme’s performance: whether it is improving lives.
Together with our supporters, we believe this is the early stages of a much larger movement, with huge potential to increase learning outcomes for children and youth around the world, through improved aid effectiveness and government spending.
Since our inception in 2018, EOF has:
- Partnered with governments in Ghana and Sierra Leone to establish the two largest outcomes funds to date in developing countries, mobilising ~$50M for these programmes.
- Established itself as a leading global player in RBF, and the only dedicated center of expertise for RBF in education and skills.
- Become the first outcomes fund hosted by the United Nations within UNICEF, as a scalable platform to partner with governments around the world.
- Established a major partnership with the LEGO Foundation, to develop a scale portfolio of RBF programmes in early childhood across a diverse range of countries, as well as to amplify the movement and ecosystem of partners around this approach.
- Had our innovative approach featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, FT, Economist, Brookings, and more.
- Built our institutional capacity to contract and implement large-scale outcomes funds more efficiently and effectively than historic impact bonds.
- Established a strong culture of performance and an active focus on ongoing professional development for all our team.
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Purpose of Assignment
EOF requires expert facilitation support to achieve high-impact results during key moments of reflection, strategy, and organizational development. This includes EOF’s Annual Results Review Meetings for its whole team, regular Leadership Team workshops and other critical sessions.
This consultancy roster will establish a pool of facilitators who bring a blend of business acumen, mastery of facilitation tools, and deep expertise in organizational dynamics, including leadership challenges, change management, and team development.
The activities may include the following:
- Pre-Session Design: Collaborate with EOF leadership to co-design session outlines, recommend structures, design activities, and produce required materials (e.g., slide decks, tools). Sessions must be customized to EOF’s context, goals, and group dynamics.
- Lead or co-facilitate sessions with high energy and engagement, ensuring safe, inclusive, and productive environments.
- Post-Session Outputs: Provide actionable summaries or insights that help EOF apply learnings effectively.
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Requirements
Education
- An advanced degree in political science, human resources, economics, finance, business, education, international development, or a related field, is required.
- A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject will be considered with an additional 2 years’ relevant experience.
- A professional certification in designing or facilitating training is desirable, but not required.
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Work Experience
A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in strategy consulting, management consulting, organizational development or similar sectors is required.
1. Business Acumen:
– Proven ability to understand organizational models, business challenges, and strategic goals.
– Experience working with leadership teams and senior executives (e.g., C-Suite, ministers).
2. Facilitation Expertise:
– Mastery of diverse facilitation tools and techniques, both online and in-person.
– Strong ability to design and execute sessions that go beyond surface-level activities.
– Expertise in managing time effectively without compromising depth.
3. Depth in Organizational Dynamics:
– Deep understanding of group dynamics, team development, and leadership challenges.
– Experience with change management and organizational development processes.
– High emotional intelligence and the ability to navigate sensitive team dynamics.
4. Inclusion and Safety:
– Demonstrated ability to create inclusive environments where participants feel safe to contribute.
5. Technology Proficiency:
– Expertise with tools for online facilitation and hybrid engagement.
6. Engaging Presence:
– Dynamic and professional speaking style, with the ability to energize and inspire participants.
Fluency in English is required.
- Fluency in English is required.
DESIRED REQUIREMENTS
- Experience working in the global education sector and/or international development.
- Experience designing and facilitating professional development training. Professional coaching or mentoring experience.
- Knowledge of innovative financing models.
- Knowledge of organizational culture development.
To excel in this role, facilitators must combine:
- Strategic Insight: The ability to connect facilitation outcomes with EOF’s broader mission and goals.
- Tailored Design: A commitment to understanding EOF’s unique context and designing sessions that are relevant, impactful, and memorable.
- Adaptive Expertise: The flexibility to adjust facilitation methods in real time to meet group needs and dynamics.
EOF values facilitators who think strategically, challenge assumptions constructively, and support our teams to reach clarity, alignment, and actionable outcomes.
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